Strikes and Unions
In what year did the fisherman of Richmond island initiate the first strike in what would become America occur?
What is 1636?
Born in 1883, this lifelong socialist wrote a number of books, including "Living the good life" which inspired the back to the land movement; before dying on his Maine farm at the age of 100.
Who is Scott Nearing?
What is The Socialist Part of America (SPA?)
In 1621, this Eastern Abenaki man became the first indigenous person to establish contact with the plymouth colony, entering their village with the greeting "Welcome Englishmen"
Who is the Sagamore Samoset
Despite being admitted into the United states as free state, Maine has a long history of slavery, with the last enslaved person being freed in what year?
what is 1836, 16 years after slavery was offocially banend in the state.
The first officially recognized trade union in the state of Maine was formed in Rockland in 1877
What is the Granite Cutters International?
Born in Warren Maine in 1861, this naturalist founded the Maine affiliate of the SPA, several local unions, local communes, and was even the first socialist to run for state governor.
Who is Norman Wallace Lermond?
Founded after the civil war, this rural advocacy society is most well known for its network of community halls which still dot the state to this day
What is the National Grange?
The five indingenous nations of Maine+: Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki, are often referred to by this political confederacy
What is the Wabanaki?
Long before it was officially a state, Maine fought what war to purge all indigenous people south of the Saco river?
What is the first Abenaki war
In 1907 the Skowhegan textile strike was triggered by the sexual harassment of a young worker, and was organized by this famous union.
What is the IWW?
Born in 1991, this New York state assemblyman recently earned acclaim for securing the democrat nomination for mayor of new york. While not from the state of Maine, he is an alumn of Bowdoin college.
Who is Zohran Mamdani?
What are the Shakers?
In what year did the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot nations first receive federal recognition, despite centuries of treaties already providing precedent.
What was 1976?
Even though it fought with the Union in the Civil War, Maine would eventually have the highest membership rate of this organization outside of the south
What is the KKK? (with almost 150,000 members in 1920)
In what industry was the great 1934 uprising begun, a nationwide general strike mobilizing more than 400,000 workers, including more than 40,000 from Maine.
What is the textile industry?
Born in 1854 in Portland Maine, this MIT educated architect turned artist worked as a union organizer in Maine, and even made several bids for governor with the Socialist Part of Maine. Several of his paintings still hang in the Farnsworth Art Museum.
Who is Charles L. Fox
There are a number of socialist and anarchist orgs operating in the State to this day, including...
What are?
MS Midcoast Solidarity. Audacity Cat, Midcoast Socialist Coalition, PSL part for Socialism and Liberation, food not Bombs, DSA Democratic Socialists of America and many many more.
In what year did the Eastern Abenaki receive federal recognition in the state of Maine
What is never?
Despite priding itself on environmental protection, Maine still permits the burning of what as fuel for its remianing mills?
What are shredded tires?